8am: The resurgence of the Taliban into power is a terrifying nightmare for Afghan girls and women, who saw their two-decade-long dreams of freedom and equality crumble overnight; to the extent that their basic and modest rights, notably education, have transformed into unattainable fantasies. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: A disturbing incident has emerged from Faryab province, where a Taliban fighter coerced a 13-year-old girl into a marriage with his own brother-in-law, using the ominous threat of a firearm. The harrowing episode, captured on video and brought to light by Hasht-e Subh on Saturday, August 5th, exposes a sinister act committed by a
8am: With the collapse of the republican government in Afghanistan, the Taliban have once again revived the concept of sexual jihad, known as Jihad-ul-Nikah. Over the past two decades, in areas under Taliban control, this group engaged in Jihad al-Nikah, although it was less prevalent and confined to specific regions. However, with their return to
8am: Hasht-e-Sobh has found that the deprivation of women has increased family violence, selling and making the girls get forcibly married while being underage in Afghan society. In the meantime, old men and some of the Taliban authorities are trying to abuse the destitution of families and get married to their virgin, underage daughters. Click
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique December 1, 2022 In the 15 months since the Taliban took power, there has been a dramatic increase in early marriages of Afghan girls — a trend activists and human rights campaigners attribute to parents’ belief that securing a spouse for their girls is better than seeing them forced to
8am: Local sources from Maidan Wardak province report the third marriage of Mawlawi Hafiz Mohammad Amin Omari, the Taliban’s governor for this province, with a young girl. According to sources, yesterday, November 9,, this wedding ceremony was held in Kabul. According to local sources, this Taliban official married a young girl as his third wife
DW: Poverty has run rampant in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. So much so that an ever-increasing number of Afghan parents are being forced into trafficking their own children. Be it to childless couples, as brides or even as fighters for radical Islamic groups. Most of the affected children come from internally displaced families: forced to flee
Akmal Dawi VOA News May 4, 2022 For several months Pashtana kept rejecting marriage proposals made for her 14-year-old daughter, Zarghona, until she had to make a final decision. “I had to choose between the survival of my four little children and giving Zarghona to marriage,” Pashtana told VOA over the phone from the southern
Washington Post: Child marriage has long been prevalent in many Afghan communities. But the Taliban takeover, the subsequent plunge of the economy and banking system, and other stresses have “exacerbated the problem,” Williams said. The age of girls sold into marriage is dropping, a trend that could persist as long as the Taliban prevents girls
CNN: Last month, CNN reported that Parwana and several other underage girls were being sold by their fathers so other members of their families could eat. At the time, Parwana’s father Abdul Malik said she cried day and night before, begging him not to sell her, saying she wanted to go to school and